Bartok: Dance Suite; Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody No.1

The celebrated Istanbul Phiharmonic Orchestra lead by new chief conductor Carlo Tenen perform a program of vibrant eastern European orchestral music. Bartok and Kodaly, close friends and musical collaborators, did much to explore and preserve traditional Hungarian music. It shines through in both the Dance Suite and Dances of Galanta. Martinu's radiant Frescoes of Piero della Francesca was inspired not by folk music, but by the composer's visit to Arezzo to see the famous 15th century frescoes The History of the True Cross in the Basilica of San Francesco. Popular folk music inspired Romanian Rhapsody No.1 by Enescu rounding off this colorful journey through eastern Europe, with a detour to Tuscany in the company of a Czech master.